several Copy link Outline I. Separate, distinctII. Denoting a number; more than one or two1. ălĭquot, indecl.2. plūres, a (more than one)3. strengthened from preced. complūres, a (a good many) • several: I. Separate, distinct: expr. by singŭli, ae, a: v. each, single. (Prīvus in this sense is peculiar to Lucr.: cf. N. R. 4, 261, privam quamque particulam, each s. atom.) See also severally. II. Denoting a number; more than one or two: 1. ălĭquot, indecl.: s. (a considerable number) letters, a. epistolae, Cic. Fam. 7, 18: for s. reasons, a. de causis, Caes. B. G. 3, 2. 2. plūres, a (more than one): more counsel in s. than in one, plus in pluribus consilii quam in uno, Cic. Rep. 1, 35: Caes. 3. strengthened from preced. complūres, a (a good many): Cic.: Caes. Phr.: s. times, aliquoties, Cic. Quint. 1, 3 also, pluries (more than once), Caes. B. C. 1, 79. and compluries (a good many times), Cato in Gell. (both these latter rare).
SEVERAL Copy link • SEVERALMore than one, plures, neuter plura: complures, neuter complura (of which plures always implies comparison with a smaller number; it may be with two only: complures = an indefinite number of several individuals considered absolutely as forming a whole): nonnulli. Different, diversus. Vid: SEPARATE